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On October 10th, "Soldier Assault" will be aired on Penguin Video.

Originally, Penguin Video wanted to screen the film in advance because it could make some money.

Don’t say anything else.

Just based on the current fierce performance of "Soldier Assault", as Lao Zhong said, there is no one before and no one after.

It is understandable to make some money at this time.

However, Zu Ming disagreed.

When Penguin Video wanted to preview "Sweeping Dark Waves" at the beginning, Zu Ming disagreed, and the same is true this time.

Zu Ming firmly disagreed, as he believed that this was killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

To be honest, in Zu Ming's opinion, the audience has already paid for the membership, so it's a bit too much to ask them to pay for the "super points".

However, in recent years, [Super Points] has become a major means of increasing website efficiency.

Many people criticize [Super Points], but for websites, [Super Points] can make them money, so they will do it.

For some TV series and movies with the participation of traffic stars, this [super point] can even allow them to earn nearly 100 million yuan.

If this were you, wouldn't you be willing?

Therefore, with such a phenomenal work as "Soldier Assault", Penguin Video feels that it can make a lot of money.

It’s just that Zu Ming didn’t agree with [exceeding the mark] at the beginning. Before the contract for this work was signed with Penguin, [exceeding the mark] was no longer Zu Ming’s request.

Not only Zu Ming, but Lin Xing also disagrees.

If it was just Zu Ming it would be fine, but with Lin Xing added, especially now that Penguin Video has a relatively good relationship with Lin Xing.

You should know that "Charlotte's Troubles" was finally scheduled to be exclusively broadcast on Penguin Video.

Relying on these relationships, Penguin Video does not want to pick up sesame seeds and lose watermelons.

For this reason, this time "Soldier Assault" will routinely end on October 10th.

It’s just that a few more chapters were added later.

That's right.

"Soldier Assault" not only did not have a preview, on the contrary, "Soldier Assault" was directly updated.

Many people felt unsatisfied after watching the finale.

"To live meaningfully is to live well, and to live well is to do meaningful things."

“Today is better than yesterday, that’s hope.”

“Don’t say there’s no point in doing something you haven’t done.”

……

"It's a choice whether to bear it or not. I don't have the right to choose not to bear it."

“Life is a series of problems, and all you can do is face them head on.”

"I know a man who grasped at every little thing as if it were a lifeline, only to find in the end that what he was holding onto was actually a towering tree."

……

"If you mess around now, be careful that life will mess you up in the future!"

"There are two words between wanting and getting, and that is to do it"

"Eat your meals one bite at a time and do your work one thing at a time"

……

Many people have started to create secondary works based on "Soldier Assault", and in particular, many people have edited some of the classic lines from the show.

Many confused people always like to listen to "Soldier Assault" to cheer themselves up.

In fact, just as Lao Zhong said, Xu Sanduo was what Gao Cheng had evaluated. He was originally a great man, but he was born with a bear-like appearance.

Think about how much Gao Cheng hated Xu Sanduo at the beginning, but what happened later? ?
Later on, he really fell in love with Xu Sanduo.

In fact, in real life, people like Chengcai are more successful. Just like in "Soldier Assault", everyone hated Xu Sanduo at the beginning, but later they all liked him.

I think the principle is the same.

As for Xu Sanduo, Lao Zhong thinks Xu Sanduo is a blunt instrument.

"Xu Sanduo is a "blunt weapon" that has been beaten by reality but has never been deformed. This rural boy, who was called a "turtle son" by his father, broke into the military camp with his primitive vitality that was not disciplined by the secular world.

His clumsiness is irritating: he can't tell the difference between left and right turns during queue training, he was scared to death by the roar of a tank, and he was stubborn in memorizing tank parameters. All of these make him seem like an alien in the modern military camp. But it is this almost paranoid "bluntness" that makes him a test reagent for spiritual purity.

When he was building a road in the fifth shift on the grassland, he carried stones day after day like Sisyphus, and achieved spiritual nirvana by doing 333 abdominal turns.

After the reorganization of the 7th Steel Company, he stayed in the barracks alone for half a year, reciting the rules and regulations as a requiem. Xu Sanduo's growth trajectory is like that of an old farmer reclaiming wasteland, using the most primitive method to dig out a deep spiritual well, confirming the life philosophy of "slow is fast."

……

In fact, many people agree with this summary of Xu Sanduo.

Let me put it this way, if you were Xu Sanduo, you would probably have fallen behind in any of these places.

Apart from anything else, how many people were directly wasted in Class 5? ?

Think about how many people were very diligent in high school, but what about later? ?

Isn't it because everyone in the dormitory indulges themselves that you become indulgent after entering university? ?

Many people have been changed by their environment and have become corrupted by it.

Because there is no other way.

Just like when you were in college, everyone in the dormitory was playing games, and you were studying alone, so you felt out of place.

Being sociable is sometimes a derogatory word.

Look at Class 5 of the Grassland. The fifth classmate was once an excellent class monitor. After coming to Class 5 of the Grassland, he quickly became friends with everyone.

He doesn't even do class chores.

Everybody plays cards, muddles through life in various ways.

But what about Xu Sanduo? ?
He always insisted on doing his homework and getting up early for exercises. No matter what others said about him, even if others hated him, he would still stick to it.

To live well is to do meaningful things.

So what is meaningful?
The meaningful thing is to live well.

Many people don’t understand such a simple truth.

Just like what the regiment commander said, in fact, many complicated things are quite simple, just like what Xu Sanduo learned in the recruit company: stand at attention and stand at ease, but behind many simple things are quite complicated.

Often, if you keep doing simple things, you will succeed, but who can do it?

Just like going to bed early and getting up early makes you healthy, but who can do it? ?

Waking up early may be possible because we need to rush about our lives, but what about going to bed early?

996 or 007, we return home and lie on the bed exhausted. Only then may we feel that the night time belongs to us.

Because of this, when you re-watch "Soldier Assault", you will find that whether Xu Sanduo was in the Fifth Squad or he was the only one guarding the Seventh Steel Company after it was reorganized, this kind of perseverance is the most rare.

On the other hand, success is the opposite.

"Chengcai is shrewd and calculating. This natural sharpshooter showed a survival wisdom that was completely different from Xu Sanduo as early as when he was in the recruit company. He knew how to deliberately miss the target in the shooting range to hide his shortcomings. He was well versed in the trick of mobilizing emotions to enhance muscle memory, and was even better at finding promotion channels between different companies.

He would even prepare several boxes of cigarettes to deal with different people.

In short, it is smooth.

From the "betrayal" of the Steel Seventh Company jumping to the Red Third Company, to the decision to abandon Wu Liuyi in the Old A selection competition, all of them expose their utilitarian survival logic.

All his achievements seemed to be carefully calculated spoils of war, but he encountered an avalanche of values ​​during Yuan Lang's trial of "being a good person".

This smart man who always knew where the next stop was, finally began to reconstruct his spiritual coordinate system under the starry sky of Grassland Class 5, completing the qualitative change from "gun king" to "soldier". "

……

Xu Sanduo always knew not to abandon or give up, but Chengcai forgot this at the beginning, so he returned to Class 5 of the Grassland to look for his own Zhizhiyeye.

For Lao Zhong, this is her last article about "Soldier Assault".

Because she won't be needed to post it next time.

In the ten days since the broadcast of "Soldier Assault", Lao Zhong has been posting drama reviews at a very high intensity.

She is different from others. Others basically post videos, but Lao Zhong only posts text.

Over the years, Lao Zhong has really only sent texts.

Lao Zhong published a total of 30 reviews for "Soldier Assault", which means an average of 3 reviews per day.

The key is that each of these articles is about three to four thousand words.

The amount of words typed every day is simply astonishing.

The most important thing is that none of the ones sent by Lao Zhong are shoddy, they are all very strong.

In every episode of drama review, Lao Zhong writes about the characters in "Soldier Assault", especially Lao Zhong really likes every character in "Soldier Assault".

It is quite rare to have an ensemble drama where every character has his or her own classic quotes like in "Soldier Assault".

It would be fine if the main actors like Xu Sanduo, Chengcai, Gao Cheng, Shi Jin, Wu Liuyi, and Yuan Lang had classic quotes.

The most important thing is that everyone in Class 5 of Grassland has his or her own classic quotes, and so do others.

Think about it, the captain doesn’t have many roles, but you can easily recall his classic quotes.

Which drama can do this?

Lao Zhong was really inspired to create after watching "Soldier Assault".

And it is precisely because of Lao Zhong’s drama review that "Soldier Assault" has added so much popularity.

As for Lao Zhong, after he finished writing his last article, he said he would not write any more because he had written everything he needed to write.

Then, a seminar was held directly for "Soldier Assault".

Seminars are a must for a successful play.

Of course, leaders also talked about data and advance screenings at the seminar.

"Penguin Video's decision to abandon advance screenings twice marks a re-examination of the content ecology by the streaming platform.

During the period of "Sweeping Dark Waves", Director Zu's opposition was an isolated case, but the joining of Lin Xing in "Soldier Assault" formed a creator alliance, forcing the platform to face up to the value of the "content life cycle" - when a drama has the potential for phenomenal dissemination, short-term harvesting may destroy the long-tail effect.

The platform finally balanced user stickiness and commercial demands through the strategy of adding more episodes. This "anti-algorithm" operation actually activated users' enthusiasm for secondary creation. Data shows that within 72 hours after the finale, the number of secondary creation videos on Bilibili increased by 300%, verifying the communication potential brought by "delayed gratification."

This data also made many people at the scene admire it, and they also felt that the gamble of "Soldier Assault" was a success.

Next, the screenwriter and director spoke in turn.

Of course, Lin Xing’s speech is inevitable.

Lin Xing said: "I think there are two reasons for the phenomenal spread of "Soldier Assault". We often said before that the first is to respect the market, and the second is to respect the audience.

Nowadays, there are about 40 military-themed dramas broadcast every year, but 65% of them fall into the narrative of "special forces + idolization".

Another 22% repeated the three-act structure of "training-competition-counter-terrorism".

As for the rest, it’s better not to shoot according to the routine.

That's why I loved the script of Soldier Assault when I read it.

Because this script truly focuses on the spirit of ordinary soldiers.

……

Lin Xing said a lot at today's seminar.

If a TV series wants to be successful, it really cannot do without the staff in front of and behind the scenes.

Why Lin Xing said that we should respect the screenwriter.

Because many people nowadays do not respect screenwriters. They basically treat them as beggars, or even use them as ghostwriters.

But "Soldier Assault" is different, Zu Ming has always respected the screenwriter very much.

This time, when filming "Soldier Assault", Zu Ming actually stayed in the military camp with the screenwriter and compiled nearly one million words of interview notes.

I have been doing this for more than a year.

Let’s be honest, how can the capitalists have the time?

They just like the assembly line.

Just like Xu Sanduo's success is to stick to his original intention, but who can do it? ?
"As I said before, the best way to make a good drama is to use the stupid method, but no one likes the stupid method. What everyone likes is to make money quickly, thinking that they can make a script in a few days, shoot in dozens of days, and make a lot of money after the movie is released..."

Lin Xing said very sharply at this time: "How is this possible?"

Not only Lin Xing, Zu Ming also said: "I think what Lin Xing said is quite right. Many things are like this. Sometimes slow is fast..."

To be honest, sometimes seminars are not very useful.

But since he was here, Lin Xing was ready to say something.

But once this is said, the car cannot be stopped.

Because nowadays TV series and movies are too obsessed with so-called speed.

"I hope everyone can still be prepared for danger in times of peace, because long-running dramas are indeed about to disappear, and a "Soldiers Assault" can't solve anything at this time..."

Lin Xing concluded his speech: "What we really need is 10, 20, or 30 "Soldier Assault" films."

"But is it possible to tell the truth??"

"I don't think it's possible, let alone ten. I think it would be good if we could produce two."

……

Lin Xing's words also made Zu Ming laugh: "Ah Xing, you are too optimistic. I think we have hope if we can produce one long-running drama like "Soldier Assault" a year, let alone two."

Finally, the seminar ended successfully.

No matter what people talked about at the meeting, it ended successfully.

Lin Xing also accepted another interview afterwards, but compared to what he said at the seminar, Lin Xing did not say too many sharp words in this interview.

Because he knows that just saying it once is enough.

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...(End of chapter)